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Tcl & National Instruments devices(PC)

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A. Kponou

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Apr 18, 2005, 11:05:15 AM4/18/05
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Does anyone out there know if TCL can be used to communicate with NI cards
(nd external devices) in a PC?
Thanks.


Ivan Young

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Apr 19, 2005, 7:51:08 AM4/19/05
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If you mean National Instruments PCI IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus interface card.
Have a look at:- http://gpib-tcl.sourceforge.net/
I'm about to try this myself.

Bye
Ivan..

Cameron Laird

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Apr 19, 2005, 10:08:02 AM4/19/05
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Let me confirm this as forcefully as I know how: YES.
Tcl is a great language for all sorts of process control
and other projects oriented to external, soft-real-time,
"real-world-connected" targets.

<URL: http://www.engcorp.com/acf/Tcl > is a placeholder
for some of this activity that might interest you.

art

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Apr 19, 2005, 8:33:41 PM4/19/05
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I have used it with the following:
National Instruments : LabWindows CVI, NI-653X , NI-4060, NI-5411,
SCXI-1129, SCXI-1160, NI-6702 ,PXI and it worked great.

I had created dlls with wrappers that call the ni functions. Within the
wrapper i can also have a simulation mode which can be toggled to not
call the ni functions for desktop testing. I think the CVI compiler had
problems with tcl8.4's include file. i think i had to use 8.3 include
file with 8.4 lib file.

art morel
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